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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019
contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022711
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? : state bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800902
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Untimely Destruction : Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
Bell, Clive - 2019
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861271
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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
Andersson, Fredrik - 2019
contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868004
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330459
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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Labour and product market reforms : a case for policy complementarity
Amable, Bruno (contributor); Gatti, Donatella (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115431
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Product market reforms and unemployment in Europe
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391687
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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle
Ebell, Monique (contributor); Häfke, Christian (contributor) - 2006
theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage … bargaining. Product market competition affects unemployment by two channels: the output expansion effect and a countervailing … effect due to a hiring externality. Competition is then linked to barriers to entry. We calibrate the model to US data and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274242
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Product market deregulation and labor market outcomes
Ebell, Monique (contributor); Häfke, Christian (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001869509